Platysmittia
Genus of flies
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Platysmittia is a genus of midges in the non-biting midge family (Chironomidae).
| Platysmittia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Chironomidae |
| Subfamily: | Orthocladiinae |
| Genus: | Platysmittia Saether, 1982 |
| Type species | |
| P. fimbriata Saether, 1982 | |
| Species | |
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Only two species are known. P. fimbriata is recorded from Tennessee and North Carolina. P. bilyji is known from Pennsylvania and Maryland,[1]
Larvae of the two species can be told apart by the longer 4th antennal segment in P. bilyji.[1]
